------------~~~~==£D~-_tJ_.£rt_I_Ot_l~_·~==-------------~159 ni 1 , & mu!ta~llit oflerdiffc & rwcl.ffe; fie Matth. 2,. app.mtit Angclur i11 fomniJ ipfi J•· [cpbo,~c. Thirdly,for rhetr Soulsfin ntfJdo in nojir.11tJtm meuteJ,tum vobmtateJ a!,rredican· tur ; diciwr fu? nJ?do , qtti• 110,1 p'l{[unt a;tg,tli mentlm ip{.lm illu~rare, aut volnntattm tjfic.;citttrfidlcre, quoc! ~{f C:.piritJu Sai1fti proprirtm., fed tanq11am SpiritttJ S.,n[li inftrumen'ta, ncitart? vtrbi auditi phanta{m.tta, veritatem memi propttnerr, & earn commonefacert, ttt ci ~~JJutiiaWt, 6" ad btmum aliqm:d v.Jlttntatem nojfram, injfar c~nfiliariormn, fo:~dendo, 6" i 1ttCI'HC q:t~fi loquwda & agenda, m .1do {piritrH!i in[fig:~re. Sic. Heb. I. I 4• dicit eoJ c(JC adminiltrarorios Spiritus in minifteriun miffos, &r. 92!:ibu1 obfecro a8ionibus fa· luum noDi I adminilfrallt .? num tantum exteruii, qu.e corpora duntaxat cm:cernant? anno;: Pfal.to4,4· p~tht! aliirmibus, qu.e i1t ifftJ quoque mentes nofiraJ penctrem & David ait, qu! facit An· t;dcs lt~o• fpiritus, & minilhos fuos fLmmam ignis: ft jicstt fiamma igniJ,jlamm.e duplex f/f aUi1, una illuminollre, a/tn·a calcf.Jcere, e, ... accutdlre ; annon igitur Prophettr iJtdicat An· gclorum n·,e,.z nos a[iirmer, & in intetlc[iu illluninando, & in voluntate ad amr.rem Dei acceu-. (JCildl verflri l 1U:que cni·H ratione c~rporum nojfrJrttm,[td auimontm potius ijli1 nominibul Bucan./oc. . appcllantttr. Here i< a Scheamof- tbtir ordinary_power, g:ven in by the Le;~rned._ And eom. de ••gelu when we read of thcfe, or ot any fi~eh thmgs m the Smpture, furely thofe Smptures d & f•n~hpro;.rc that fi.tch thing<; \\'ere dune thenby Angel" o~dimrily,Js on their part:and that now ,~ 1 a;~t 11 • • 3' !!Ky may be done in ordinary as well as then. Will you fay, they were dcne then, but 11 vr now? or whar was don;,; tht'n, is not now to our purpofe, or fOr our prefent lear- C ing? (he ApoHk faith Nherwif,, uorv all theft tbin~J bappe~ed 1(-l-!to tbtmforcn[ampleJ; and ~o~~~~s~4~ 1 • tb()' are r?rirtrn for r1tr admonitir,n, up.-m wh m the end; of th~ 1Vorld are come ; --for n·iJ.Jij;JL'VCr tiJi,tC!J rvcre n·rillen .zfore lime .. were written for our lea ·ning, tb.:zt we tbrougb pati~ * Zanch ibid. cnce and c.11n[Jrt of tbeScriptzircJ mlgbt bavz brJpe. On this Text faith "" Zanchiui,h~tc 11r[upra. 'cti.nn ont11i.1. qu£dePfficiiJ Angel rum in fcripturiJ trJdumul', cmd uojlram maximeputincant ,.. Me«'Cinhis c.>n[olatimcmIt is worthily quellioned by ;' Mr. Mede, are hiJ inji,nia in the Go{pcllcJJe ~v~rc~cetf. worthy of Ancr.els atteHdance tban thoj"e of tbeLaw? or hJ'liC tbc An"ielJfmcetbe nJture of 0 5 ou e, man, Jifus Cbriji our L~rd) bccomle thc~r bead andKing, gotteJ~ an rxemptianfrlm thiJfervice? fi•rcly not; to the llme pmofc I;JCh 1ho Au1hor above med, were the Rudiment! of the Lm· "'•'rtby of an attend""" of AngeiJ, ami are the ChrtrclseJ cj the Gofpel dejlitute of fo ;t,l1ricttJ a rctinm > i1 the na!ltrC"f m mmade worft, fi;tce theiucarn:ltion ofthe Son Of God ·:r hav~ tbc A ugclJ purchafcd an c; fmplirmf- o»z rheir midftry,fince Chrift be.:.'mze our brotber i; 1 1he ficfh? m h•ve liulc reafon tJ lbink,_fo; my Text fait\1, arc tbcJ not all i11inijlring Spi· ritJ) 1ruely they are , as well as rrcre; and fo 1hey w•ll beto the end of the World. ~ zanch i6iJ, Indeed now :~.re nor fllch :tpp:tritions, as forl'llerly were. ~In V.7'. ptteri erant, ideoexJernir l.3.c.21. app>rit ionibtu Ant.clmtm cgebant ad fui conf.latimcm. Bdides a greater meafure ofthe Spirits being now grven , God would have us now couverfc with the Spirit, and thefe Spirirs in a more invifiJie wJy; and befides we have Faith now inabiing us to converfe with the Angels in a way more lpiritual: which made Mr. Byfieldiay, • It iJJure th•t tht ~ Bif.on 1 Pc; Angels arc <lwaiCJ in garrijan for 1be Ele{l, pitchiw;. their"'"' round about them that fear r.$. • God; that wbicb E!ifha, and bis mon [aw wttb bodily eiu, every betciver may be ajfuredcf t L•wr on – by Faith. '[bcir appeariJt~J are ceafcdllaJihtMr. Lawrence) h111 not their workings; lhottgh Angels, P· 19• their cor.verfcbe 1101 fo Jc11jiblc •yeti• i1 as rc.l, --ThiJ remui!ls afore trttth, that tbeyare & 49 • of migbty ztfe tous, and thething I c1mmuuicatcd to our inwar:ima11, i1 ordjnarily the 11dmini· Jlration of A;tf.clJ. ' . ~- You grant, that we mJy thus far take comfort what God did by Angels to them of o1d, that he will do for his fervants what is good for them in the like cafes,yet whether he will do it in this way ,;z byan Angel, we cannot fay, unlefs the Angd appears as fen· fibly for us as he die\ for them.] !\:nd are ycu not in this too much lead by fenfe? faith is , tbe widena of 1hingr not fecn, and not ot things vifible. If God do fuch, or the like in Sain;. things for his fcrvantsgood_eith(r he cloth it immedia1ely or mediately ;for mypart(faith <cfl. part •· Mr. _B;xm) I believe, tlw Gods wori(f ~~~ the Worltl, are st[~ally by i~t}lr~ments, and not im· ~~-- Prid<au~ mtdz.ate; and .rb.1t goud Au!fiJare hu tn}frmn~ms t:z co~vtymg hu mercu1 both, to Soul and (. t fc•la vifibi• bod;. But Wtll you not beheve, except you fee the prmt of the nayles? nimiumprofeflo lium ad inviP· fomuJ 'Ih•mijlc,Joh. 20· nifi videro, nijidigiwm immifero,nifi obverfetur[enjib11r, utpalpem; hili•- & amplex1bur tcne11m ; aNJUZa non vldes ammam tuam, aut/4)11}que alttriuJ, dubi1abt1 te tffe animatum? aut quia tzerbantem ntm c:mjpexcnmt Angelum aquam,Betbefd£"Mtgarent Jud.ei pifcinamm •tJmJitiffevel curbatam> Suppofo a good work done(though no miracle neixher)above 1hc power ofa man,or any vilible !Ccondary caule,there is¥ one can tell you; ~ B. Hall of tlut tbif (rJrrie; itt own evidcnbe without difPure, ttJatjf it be not (as we fay) afnatll.re, it Angels m~tft necdJ be oj'ati bigher efficiency,viz. ofAngelr. *And another faith as much,that thofi i; 1 ~Dr. M,antan fiance on Judr. V, 9.
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